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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7607522 | Shock absorber for vehicles A damper for vehicles is arranged with selectable or adjustable damping force characteristics that are essentially independent of other internal or external function factors in the damper. For this, fixing devices and a surrounding arrangement, piston arrangement an... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7364000 | Suspension apparatus of vehicle The invention provides a suspension apparatus of a vehicle comprising a base end portion of a swing arm pivotally attached to a vehicle body so as to freely oscillate, and a wheel which is rotatably supported to a leading end portion of the swing arm. A first link i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7337885 | Telescoping cylinder A telescoping fluid cylinder having an inner rod and outer rod moving between extended and retracted positions. A first piston and second piston move the outer rod and inner rod through the cylinder in which a valve of the first piston provides for independent movem... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7320387 | Load adaptive damper with transient air signal restrictor A shock absorber for a vehicle suspension includes a pneumatic actuator that is fluidly connected to a compressed air source in the vehicle suspension, such as a suspension air bag. The pneumatic actuator cooperates with an adjustment mechanism housed within the sho... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7293764 | Adjusting mechanism with a helical spring of large diameter An adjusting mechanism with a spring, particularly an adjusting mechanism with a helical spring of large diameter, is disclosed, the thread grooves of an inner bore of a rotation member being primarily used to allow the helical spring of large diameter fixed to the ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7255210 | Telescopic fork leg for a vehicle, preferably a motorcycle A telescopic fork leg incorporates mutually displaceable inner and outer tube parts and a damping arrangement for damping the relative movements of the tube parts. The damping arrangement comprises tubular and coaxially disposed units. A piston belonging to a first ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7159699 | Adjustable shock absorber A shock absorber is provided and includes a first end adapted for connection to a vehicle, a second end adapted for connection to the vehicle, a case containing a piston rod and a piston valve and a compression adjustment device disposed exterior to the case, wherei... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156213 | Shock absorber having a hydraulic stop A shock absorber includes a hydraulic stop. The hydraulic stop includes two housings connected together by a spring. At the end of the stroke of the shock absorber, the piston causes the two housings to approach each other thereby causing fluid disposed between the ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156214 | Vibration damper with amplitude-selective damping force Vibration damper includes a cylinder filled with a damping medium in which a piston rod with a piston is guided in an axially movable manner, wherein the piston divides the cylinder into a work space on the piston rod side and a work space remote of the piston rod. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7062367 | Vehicle actuator remote control system The control system includes a microprocessor based radio frequency receiver module and a radio frequency handset transmitter module. The microprocessor receives a specific input from the remote transmitter. The handset transmitter module contains two joysticks. Two ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7040468 | Hydraulic shock absorber A hydraulic shock absorber includes a cylindrical housing within which a piston assembly is slidably received. The piston assembly includes a piston element connected to a piston rod and adapted to divide an interior of the housing into compression and rebound chamb... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032727 | Shock absorber having a hydraulic stop A shock absorber includes a hydraulic stop. The hydraulic stop includes two housings connected together by a spring. At the end of the stroke of the shock absorber, the piston causes the two housings to approach each other thereby causing fluid disposed between the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6986414 | Hydraulic shock absorber A hydraulic dashpot with a cylinder (1), a piston (4), and a bypass. The cylinder is charged with fluid. The piston partitions the cylinder into two compartments (7 & 8), travels back and forth therein on the end of a piston rod (2... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6979011 | Motorcycle fork bottom having different longitudinal stiffness and adjustable lateral stiffness A motorcycle or bicycle suspension having adjustable side-to-side flexibility. The suspension includes a telescopic fork and a fork bottom which couples the fork to the axle of a wheel. The fork bottom and the fork are stiff in the direction of travel, to avoid flex... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6959797 | Piston-cylinder assembly with braking device In a piston-cylinder assembly comprising a cylinder in which a piston rod is installed with freedom of axial movement and which is filled with a blocking medium, a braking device becomes active when the piston-cylinder assembly moves faster than a defined speed and ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6938887 | Suspension system for bicycles The present invention relates to a spring damper system for bicycles having a first load-applying segment, a second load-applying segment, at least one spring mechanism, a damping means, and a regulating mechanism that automatically effects a damping behavior of the... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6918472 | Arrangement for a piston and cylinder device The hydraulic cylinder or shock absorber arrangement has a cylinder unit limiting an inner space in which a medium in the form of a gas or a liquid is intended to be placed. A forwardly and backwardly movable piston unit is placed such that it can slide within the s... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6802407 | Adjustable front suspension device A front suspension device includes an inner tube fixedly connected to the crown portion of the front fork and movably inserted in an outer tube. A valve member is received in the inner tube and connected to a sleeve which extends from the inner tube and an adjusting... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6786498 | Shock absorbing device for a bicycle A shock absorbing device is provided to reduce shock that is transmitted to a handlebar of a bicycle, and includes a damping member disposed between a mount and a leg member and having a damping capacity. A driven member is rotatably mounted on the mount and is turn... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6701235 | Suspension control system In a suspension control system, a controller previously stores damping force maps (an ordinary road map, a rough road map, and an extremely rough road map) corresponding to road surface conditions (an ordinary road, a rough road, and an extremely rough ro... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6659239 | Shock absorber through the rod damping adjustment A shock absorber is provided that includes a shock absorber body defining a cavity that is at least partially filled with hydraulic fluid. A piston is slidably arranged within the body and separates the cavity into rebound and compression fluid chambers. ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6637555 | Pneumatic connections for vehicle suspensions The invention provides a damper assembly (10) comprising a housing (12) defining an inner chamber (22, 24) having a damping fluid disposed therein. A piston rod (14) is slidably retained by the housing (12), and at least partially extends into, the chambe... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6516257 | Method and system for independent axle control of a variable force damper system The invention provides a method for independent axle control of a variable force damper system by providing at least one axle velocity signal from at least one vehicle sensor. The method then applies an axle control algorithm to the at least one axle velo... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6474454 | Damping force control type hydraulic shock absorber A pilot chamber is formed at the back of a disk valve for each of the fluid flow systems for the extension and compression strokes. Damping force in a low piston speed region is controlled with a pressure control valve. The valve opening pressure of the d... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6446771 | Shock absorber A shock absorber is made with a bleed function and preferably a non-return valve function associated with the bleed function. The shock absorber has a cylinder (3) and, working in the latter in working medium and arranged on a piston rod (4), a piston arr... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6360857 | Damping adjuster for shock absorber A shock absorber comprises an adjustment component movable in two degrees of freedom. When the adjustment component is adjusted within one of its degrees of freedom of movement, a characteristic, such as the compression damping, is adjusted and when the a... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6360858 | Damping apparatus for bicycle forks A bicycle fork having a damping apparatus that includes a cylinder, a damping fluid and a piston. The cylinder defines a chamber. The damping fluid is located in the chamber. The piston is disposed in the chamber and is positioned adjacent the fluid.... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6343676 | Shock absorber mounted real time damper valve A shock absorber mounted electromagnetically operated real time damper valve which is mounted upon a piston rod and provides a flow path for fluid which bypasses the piston which separates a cylinder of the shock absorber into a pair of fluid containing c... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6293377 | Variable-damping force shock absorber An actuator disposed within a piston rod of a variable-damping force shock absorber has coils mounted at an inner peripheral face of the piston rod, permanent magnets disposed facing a stator, and a cylindrical body supported rotatably about the piston ro... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6279703 | Shock absorbing adjusting structure A shock absorbing adjusting structure includes a cylinder with a tube movably received in the cylinder. One end of the cylinder is connected to a part of a bicycle frame and one end of the tube is connected to another part of the bicycle frame. A sleeve i... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6152271 | Shock absorber mounted electromagnetically operated damper valve A shock absorber mounted electromagnetically operated damper valve which is mounted upon a piston rod and provides a flow path for fluid which bypasses the piston which separates a cylinder of the shock absorber into a pair of fluid containing chambers. T... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6120049 | Bicycle shock absorber including lockout means An improved shock absorber for use in the front fork suspension of a mountain bicycle includes a housing having a pair of telescopically-arranged cylinders containing a rebound damping piston, a compression damping piston, and a lockout damping piston arr... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6105988 | Adjustable suspension system having positive and negative springs A suspension system having first and second elements telescopingly engaged and being biased apart by a positive spring, such biasing being counteracted by a negative spring. In one embodiment, the positive spring and negative spring are disposed in the fi... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6065573 | Adjustable energy absorption device with break-off adjustment knob An adjustable energy absorption device whose setting can be rendered tamper-proof, and a method of rendering the setting of an adjustable energy absorption device tamper-proof. The device is of the type that includes an outer cylinder and an adjustment me... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6044940 | Remote-controlled hydropneumatic shock absorber A shock absorber comprises a sliding tube sealed at one end which is provided with an attachment for one of the two parts of the vehicle which needs cushioning and a stem presenting at one end another attachment for the other of the two parts of the vehic... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6026939 | Shock absorber with stanchion mounted bypass damping A dampener (628) for a shock absorber of a vehicle, such as a bicycle, is mounted within a telescoping front fork including a stanchion tube (116) and a coaxial slide tube (618). The dampener includes an internally received hydraulic fluid sleeve (640) th... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5988330 | Adjustable shock absorber A shock absorber incorporates a double adjustable valve using a single needle having both a tapered end portion and extended cylindrical portion. The needle is used in a shock that has a correspondingly configured radial rebound orifice and a plurality of... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5950776 | Apparatus and method for controlling damping force characteristic of vehicular shock absorber An apparatus and method for controlling damping force characteristics of respective vehicular shock absorbers in which vehicular vertical behavior(s) at the position(s) of the vehicular body which are forward by a predetermined distance from a tread of re... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5848675 | Damping apparatus for bicycle forks A damping apparatus for use in a bicycle fork includes two telescoping legs, a rebound piston and a compression piston. A damping fluid is provided in the apparatus. The pistons and legs define compression rebound and variable zones into which the fluid m... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5788031 | Control cylinder unit for varying spring constant of vehicular stabilizer A control cylinder unit for varying a spring constant of a vehicular stabilizer includes a cylindrical fluid chamber divided into upper and lower liquid chambers by a slidably inserted piston. The upper and lower liquid chambers are communicated with each... | 08/04/1998 |
